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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Fourteen short works of fiction by noteworthy American women authors offer entrancing tales of redemption, betrayal, tradition, and rebellion. Dating from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, these narratives range in mood from Heat, Joyce Carol Oates's chilling tale of murder, to Why I Live at the P.O., Eudora Welty's comic monologue in the Southern Gothic tradition.Other contributors include Flannery O'Connor, Kate Chopin, and Edna Ferber as well as lesser-known, newly rediscovered writers. Edith Wharton examines the issue of divorce and remarriage in The Other Two, and Willa Cather explores life among Greenwich Village artists at the turn of the twentieth century in Coming, Aphrodite Stories with modern settings include Alice Walker's Everyday Use, an insightful look at the role of heritage in African-American culture, and Louise Erdrich's The Shawl, a meditation on memory and the transformation of old stories into new ones. Together, the tales offer a revealing panorama of perspectives on women's ongoing struggles for dignity and self-sufficiency.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Fourteen short works of fiction by noteworthy American women authors offer entrancing tales of redemption, betrayal, tradition, and rebellion. Dating from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, these narratives range in mood from Heat, Joyce Carol Oates's chilling tale of murder, to Why I Live at the P.O., Eudora Welty's comic monologue in the Southern Gothic tradition.Other contributors include Flannery O'Connor, Kate Chopin, and Edna Ferber as well as lesser-known, newly rediscovered writers. Edith Wharton examines the issue of divorce and remarriage in The Other Two, and Willa Cather explores life among Greenwich Village artists at the turn of the twentieth century in Coming, Aphrodite Stories with modern settings include Alice Walker's Everyday Use, an insightful look at the role of heritage in African-American culture, and Louise Erdrich's The Shawl, a meditation on memory and the transformation of old stories into new ones. Together, the tales offer a revealing panorama of perspectives on women's ongoing struggles for dignity and self-sufficiency.…

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Condizione: Fair. The seventy-five short masterpieces of fiction in this volume represent the finest accomplishments in a difficult and special art form. Each creates a microcosm in which the very compactness of the story gives it power and emotional impact much more dramatic than could have been achieved in a longer or more explicit work. Proof Positiveby Graham Greene in spine-chilling, Leo Tolstoy's The Three Hermits has a beauty which is moving and spiritual, John Collier's The Chaser is shocking and hilarious. Selected from the literature of the world, and including writers from Boccaccio through Sylvia Townsend Warner, this volume is a classic anthology of great stories.…

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Condizione: Very Good. This highly acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. Editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that "tells a story"-and tells it with a masterful handling of language, situation, and insight. But what is so special about this volume is that it mirrors our age, our concerns, and our lives. Whether it's the end of a marriage, as in Bobbie Ann Manson's "Shiloh," or the struggle with self-esteem and weight in Andre Dubus's "The Fat Girl," the 36 works included her probe issues that give us that "shock of recognition" that is the hallmark of great art--wonderful, absorbing fiction that will be read and reread for decades to come. …

Condizione: Fair. This highly acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. Editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that "tells a story"-and tells it with a masterful handling of language, situation, and insight. But what is so special about this volume is that it mirrors our age, our concerns, and our lives. Whether it's the end of a marriage, as in Bobbie Ann Manson's "Shiloh," or the struggle with self-esteem and weight in Andre Dubus's "The Fat Girl," the 36 works included her probe issues that give us that "shock of recognition" that is the hallmark of great art--wonderful, absorbing fiction that will be read and reread for decades to come.…

Condizione: Good. This highly acclaimed collection of short stories by American writers contains only the best literary art of the past four decades. Editors Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks have selected fiction that "tells a story"-and tells it with a masterful handling of language, situation, and insight. But what is so special about this volume is that it mirrors our age, our concerns, and our lives. Whether it's the end of a marriage, as in Bobbie Ann Manson's "Shiloh," or the struggle with self-esteem and weight in Andre Dubus's "The Fat Girl," the 36 works included her probe issues that give us that "shock of recognition" that is the hallmark of great art--wonderful, absorbing fiction that will be read and reread for decades to come.…

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Condizione: Good. A truly exceptional collection of thirty-five great stories from some of the most celebrated writers of the first half of the twentieth century Short stories can be funny, pathetic, frightening, uplifting, nostalgic, beautiful--and it is just this variety that makes them the popular and satisfying reading they are. Here are thirty-five of the best stories by British and American writers in the first half of the twentieth century, in an outstanding anthology that ranges in kind from the humor of James Thurber and Ring Lardner to the irony of Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce. Each story is different from every other--but each bears the stamp of unmistakable greatness, including: * "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" by Stephen Crane * "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" by D. H. Lawrence * "Barn Burning" by William Faulkner * "The Sojourner" by Carson McCullers * "The Open Window" by Saki * "Flowering Judas" by Katherine Anne Porter * "The Boarding House" by James Joyce * "Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway * "The Tree of Knowledge" by Henry James * "Why I Live at the P.O." by Eudora Welty Editors Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine selected stories that broke new ground and challenged the imagination with their style, subject matter, or tone: the unforgettable, enduring works that shaped the literature of our time.…

Condizione: Fair. A truly exceptional collection of thirty-five great stories from some of the most celebrated writers of the first half of the twentieth century Short stories can be funny, pathetic, frightening, uplifting, nostalgic, beautiful--and it is just this variety that makes them the popular and satisfying reading they are. Here are thirty-five of the best stories by British and American writers in the first half of the twentieth century, in an outstanding anthology that ranges in kind from the humor of James Thurber and Ring Lardner to the irony of Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce. Each story is different from every other--but each bears the stamp of unmistakable greatness, including: * "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" by Stephen Crane * "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" by D. H. Lawrence * "Barn Burning" by William Faulkner * "The Sojourner" by Carson McCullers * "The Open Window" by Saki * "Flowering Judas" by Katherine Anne Porter * "The Boarding House" by James Joyce * "Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway * "The Tree of Knowledge" by Henry James * "Why I Live at the P.O." by Eudora Welty Editors Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine selected stories that broke new ground and challenged the imagination with their style, subject matter, or tone: the unforgettable, enduring works that shaped the literature of our time.…

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